With Social Security recipients facing automatic 22% cuts in six years, Ohioans could scarcely be more unified in their demand that it be fixed, according to a poll a nonpartisan foundation is calling attention to. Due to decades of congressional inaction, the Social Security Trust Fund is now expected to become insolvent in six years. […]
Ohio voter registrations are down as the state faces what may be one of the most consequential midterm elections in modern history. The decline follows four years of new laws passed by the Republican legislature making it harder to register and harder to vote. Registrations as of Oct. 26 were down 52,562 from 2018, the […]
Ohio voters will decide who the newest state attorney general will be in an open race to decide the state’s chief law enforcement officer and legal counsel. The most recent elected attorney general, Dave Yost, resigned in June to take a position with a Christian non-profit law firm called Alliance Defending Freedom. Governor Mike DeWine […]
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There were more than 2,500 oil and gas incidents reported in Ohio from 2015 through 2025, according to a new report. The number of incidents are generally increasing, going from 103 in 2015 to 268 in 2025, according to a new report published last week by FracTracker Alliance in partnership with Buckeye Environmental Network. FracTracker […]
With data showing domestic violence as the “most prevalent violent crime in Ohio,” state officials recently announced boosts to domestic violence programs, including survivor services and law enforcement training. The Ohio Department of Public Safety’s Office of Criminal Justice Services found that more than half of all violent crime arrests in Ohio had a domestic […]
We speak with Forensic Architecture’s Eyal Weizman about his new book, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide, a meticulous investigation into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the physical destruction of the territory and its impact on the Palestinian people. Forensic Architecture was founded in 2010 as an interdisciplinary research group focused on investigating state violence and human […]
DOJ Opens Criminal Probe of California Mail-In Ballots Despite Judge’s Order, Corporations Spend $737M on Midterm Elections as Super-Rich Give $4.2B to Super PACs, Trump Returns to South Carolina to Rally GOP Support as Pollsters Declare Senate Race a Toss-Up, DOJ Ramps Up Criminal Probe of Alaska Senate Candidate Mary Peltola’s Campaign with Subpoenas, Famine […]
Several tech workers at Google’s AI unit DeepMind have resigned in protest over the tech giant’s work with the U.S. and Israeli militaries. Last week, DeepMind research engineer Sofia Liguori announced her resignation in a letter to her colleagues titled “Stay Human.” She denounced what she called “Google’s complicity in the Gaza genocide” and the […]
Immigrant rights and labor icon Dolores Huerta died Wednesday at the age of 96. Huerta co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962 and then the United Farm Workers of America, working with Cesar Chavez. From 1965 to 1970, the union organized the historic Delano grape strike, which ended in major gains for farmworkers’ labor […]
Arab Parties Could Determine Next Israeli Prime Minister as Election Produces No Clear Winner, Israel Bombs Gaza Ministry as Settlers Attack Palestinians and Activists in West Bank, City of Cambridge, MA, Votes to Divest from Businesses Tied to Israel’s Military, Three More Oil Tankers Erupt in Flames Near Strait of Hormuz, Pentagon Tells Congress U.S. […]
We get analysis of the Israeli elections, the upcoming U.S. midterms, the pro-Palestine movement and more from Palestinian American scholar Rashid Khalidi and Pakistani British writer Tariq Ali. They are co-authors of the new book The Neck and the Sword: Palestine’s Unfinished Struggle. The book, an extended conversation between Khalidi and Ali over two years, […]
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